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this is a couple of things first it is an

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exciting new Gigabyte motherboard second

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it is an exciting new Intel chipset so this is the same Intel lga 1155 platform

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that supports the latest Intel core i7 core i5 core i3 processors it is made by

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Gigabyte who we know and love okay it has 16 phases of power three year

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warranty ultra durable three all those good Gigabyte technologies we like

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NVIDIA sli dual CPU power interesting power engine

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a and power engine b cool but it has a

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really cool new feature this uses the z68 chipset so this is the z68xud4b3

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what that means is that even if you install

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okay get this a pci express graphics card or even two in sli or crossfire x

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which is compatible with both you can still use the onboard video on

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your Intel CPU because they've all got it on the lga 1155 platform to

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accelerate things like video rendering

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cool right so that is the pretty much

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the killer app that makes the z68 different from the p67 chipset so let's

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take just a brief moment here talk about some of the other Gigabyte technologies

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that make this board special so usb power 3x is a pretty cool one actually

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here i'm just going to cheat and i'm going to look at the chromebox usb power 3x so what that means is you can deliver

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more power through the usb ports than their competitors usb 3.0 is awesome

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love it sata3 also awesome love it okay

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all ferrite core chokes all lower rds mosfets and all 50 000 japanese solid

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caps as i mentioned before 16 phase power and

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let me see three plus terabyte hard drives oh and this touch BIOS so

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Gigabyte has implemented ue um

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efi BIOS technology now with this line

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of board so i don't think there's much here on the back that we really need to

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talk about there is one more killer feature of the z68 but i'm going to talk

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about it in a little while i'm just gonna that's a hook so you guys can't go

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away just yet okay multilingual installation guidebook user manual

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driver dvd download the latest off the Gigabyte website don't install lga 1156

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cpus they are not compatible here is an io shield

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oh and the ones with three times usb power are marked neat

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we have ooh black flexible sli bridge i love little

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touches like this where they include uh you know because the last thing you want

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is you know you got like a shmexi you know great color scheme board and then

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they go and include like a brown sli bridge it's like that's great i went and

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built a high performance system in this and now it has to look stupid so we've

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got two right angle SATA cables two straight SATA cables also black to match

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the entirely black appearance of this

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high performance z68 motherboard so let's go ahead and

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get this baby out of the packaging here

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and there it is now if you guys ever watch my Linus tech

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tips show and you ever pay attention you might

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remember one thing that i always talk about first whenever i see it

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and that is matte black pcb love it love

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everything about it it looks great it makes you feel like you just bought a

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really premium quality product when it has that stealth black look to it you

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know it's not overly shiny although there are accented shiny bits like the

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CPU socket the battery but other than that it's just got like a dark

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stealthy look to it love it okay so let's start with the CPU socket

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as i mentioned before lj 1155 socket fully capable of using the full

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capabilities of the CPU you put in including the CPU

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cores as well as the GPU core even when you install another graphics card so all

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the p67 all the h67 boards as soon as you install a graphics card boom turns

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off the onboard video you can't use Intel's accelerated video

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encoding software so that is a great feature to have for this chipset there

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is that 20 rather 16 phase power design

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so you can see all the phases here you can see the mosfet coolers are very

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bulky very heat piped very capable looking okay you can see they're going

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to get some incidental airflow from your CPU fan no matter how you situate it up

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here in the top right top left corner this ideal location is the eight pin CPU

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power connector here's our CPU fan connector over here we find

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four ddr3 dimm slots all right so those

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are dual channel this is the same basic technology we find on the p67 with that

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onboard video inclusion to the technology list here we

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have our 24 pin connector in its ideal location here we find two Gigabyte

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chipset powered SATA 3 ports 2 Intel

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chipset powered SATA 3 ports as well as 4 Intel chipset powered SATA 2 3 gigabit

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per second ports so these are going to be the best ones i'd use these ones next

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and then probably i'd fall back onto those ones unless you have a bunch of

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sata3 six gigabit per second drives in which case i guess you'll need to use

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these second here we have our front panel connectors here we have front usb

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3. here we have one two three front usb

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twos here we have front firewire front

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audio in its ideal location along the bottom edge of the board not over here

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like previous generation Gigabyte boards in terms of expansion ports we have two

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PCIe 16x slots although you can clearly see this one is only wired for 8x so if

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you do run crossfire or sli you're going to be running an 8x8x mode which doesn't

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make very much difference in terms of performance two PCIe 1x two pci so if

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you do install sli or crossfire with two dual slot cards you will be left with

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one PCIe 1x and one pci slot for

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expansion here on the back of the board you will find a whole lot of expansion

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possibilities so first things first we've got one of those ps2 keyboard

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mouse combo ports which i'm a big fan of we have one two

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three four five six seven eight usb 2.0

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ports uh coaxial and optical audio out

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firewire that is power d SATA hold on i

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think that's power d SATA let's find out nope that is esata3

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oh esata3 really oh cool well that's a neat feature hold on in

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just a minute here well you know what someone leave a comment on the video let me know if that

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is actually a SATA 3 port because that's pretty neat for external storage if it

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is so that is an esata3 slash usb

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combo port and then this one is just straight esata3 here's usb 3.0 gigabit

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Ethernet as well as 7.1 audio out and i actually you know what it's kind of

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funny but i like the

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this is almost like harkening back to the old Gigabyte days where their boards

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had like the explosion of color on them here the board looks awesome which is

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great so it means your system is going to look great and then at the back

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they've gone back to the old Gigabyte ways which i actually kind of like it's kind of a nice little touch like you

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know old school style we've got just a little bit of that Gigabyte flare on the

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back of the system where it's i don't have to look at it unless i'm trying to

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plug in a port in which case color coding everything helps a lot it's great

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now i haven't talked about that other feature yet i've been saving it and

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let's see what Intel smart response technologies what we're calling it so

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basically what Intel smart response technology allows us to do

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is it allows us to plug in an SSD into

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one of the Intel ports and a hard drive and then use the SSD as a cache so we've

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had products that have used this kind of technology in the past such as the

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seagate momentous xt which had a built-in very small SSD

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such as the HDD boost from silverstone

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which allowed you to mount an SSD and then use a pass-through to run to a hard

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drive but this is the first time we've seen it natively included on a chipset

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so the z68 chipset has the graphics

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feature which is very very important and then it also has the ability to use an

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SSD as a cache for your hard drive so what that means is if you buy a small

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SSD rather than installing your os installing one game on it and then going

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oh where'd all my space go now i can't put anything else on my SSD instead you

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put on the SSD it hides itself from you completely you plug in your hard drive

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you bind them together i haven't actually tried it yet so i don't know how it works but you do that you have

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the full capacity of your hard drive and then the system will intelligently store

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your most frequently accessed files and programs onto the SSD so you can more

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quickly access those Gigabyte claims up to a four time system performance

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increase than with a hard drive only so that's very

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cool thank you for checking out my unboxing of the z68x ud4b from Gigabyte

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